5.0 Installatio5n fails on mysql db creation

[jmugauri]

I'm having problems installing Sugar CE 5.0 Whether i choose typical or custom install, the installation always fails at the last step, and with the indicated error:

Creating Sugar configuration file (config.php)

Creating Sugar application tables, audit tables and relationship metadata
Creating the database sugarcrm on ...done
Unable to select database:

I tracked his down to the fact that the config.php file created at this stage has it's values reset to incorrect values (ignoring all my inputs)... Consequently, i changed the values pertaining to the DB in install/performSetup.php to static values, instead of the dyanamic Session variables it uses. This succeeded in getting me past the database and table creation stage of the install, but inserts failed from an insertion into scheduler table.

Ignoring this, i managed to get the login page, but every login (with the correct password) returns me to the login page. This is ironic, because i only removed and attempted to reinstall SugarCRM after it began exhibiting the same behaviour. This is after i attempted to login to SugarCRM from the module loader using my credentials, it failed with an 'Incompatible Sugar versions (100)' error, and began the endless loop login at this time.

I now believe it is a problem with Session Data, but have no idea how to clear the cache, as it were. Any clues? (I'm running CentOS 5, with PHP 5, Apache 2, and MySQL 5.

[jmugauri]

FYI

Once I accessed Sugar from the domain indicated in the setting 'session.cookie_domain =' in php.ini, I could install it without a problem, even login. (i.e. not accessing the server via ip address, but by an address in that domain assigned to that ip)

Suggests that it's a problem with Sugar's Session management, perhaps?

Regards,

JamesTM